“Ask A Biologist” Podcasts

Another neat resource I discovered recently–there are a large number of interviews with scientists online you can download (including text transcripts) in the form of podcasts.  The “Ask-A-Biologist” podcast is produced on the campus of Arizona State University.
Not surprisingly, many of them are about insects! (Although “Dr. Biology” seems to be kinda squeamish, [...]

e-Lucy

In case you missed it–or won’t get to the exhibit–there is a new website to support the American tour of Lucy, a partial skeleton of a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis.
eLucy has activities for both students and teachers, as well as lots of other info. It took me a minute or two to figure out [...]